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Yahoo PoliticsDec 20, 2025
Stefanik drops out of New York governor's race after Trump stays neutral


New York Times PoliticsDec 20, 2025
Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle
The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.

New York Times PoliticsDec 20, 2025
How Democrats Used the Word ‘Affordability' to Take On Trump
Both parties are now preparing for "affordability" to play a major role in the midterm elections next year. How did it emerge so quickly?

New York Times PoliticsDec 20, 2025
Lou Cannon Dies at 92; Journalist Chronicled Reagan as an Author
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.

Yahoo PoliticsDec 20, 2025
Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes


Yahoo PoliticsDec 20, 2025
Exclusive-Trump appointee inspired by conservative media outlet to push for probe of Democratic congressman


New York Times PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Epstein Files Timeline: How the Trump Administration Released Records
A year of political pressure and partial disclosures preceded the release of long-sought records on Jeffrey Epstein.

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Trump Administration Pauses Green Card Lottery After Brown Shooting (New York Times Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Elise Stefanik ends bid for New York governor and plans to leave Congress


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Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor's Race and Will Leave Congress (Politics - U.S. House)

Washington Post PoliticsDec 19, 2025
To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license privateers
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque authorizing private raids at sea.

New York Times PoliticsDec 19, 2025
6 Takeaways From the First Batch of the Epstein Files
Many of the Justice Department documents were heavily redacted, and President Trump's name was rarely mentioned. The White House also sought to make political hay of the release of photos of Bill Clinton.

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Photos of Bill Clinton included in newly released Epstein files (Yahoo Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Rep. Elise Stefanik set to drop her bid for NYS governor


NYT Homeland Press ReleasesDec 19, 2025
ICE Allows Democratic Lawmakers Inside Migrant Cells in New York City
The immigration agency had barred elected officials from the holding facilities. A federal judge this week said they must be given access.

Democracy NowDec 19, 2025
Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare
The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time.

"This is a drastic departure from any concern about science, concern about parents and their rights," says Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBTQ & HIV Project. "It is putting hospitals in an impossible situation, and just another example of this administration undermining and threatening all of our health and welfare."

We also speak with Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth in New York City. He says the families he works with are "terrified right now," but vows to continue his work. "I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge. I'm willing to go down that route, if necessary."


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Republicans risk moderates, US House majority, with no healthcare extension (Yahoo Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companies


BBC PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Probe ongoing after UK government hacked, says minister
Trade minister Sir Chris Bryant says information was accessed and an investigation has been launched.

Democracy NowDec 19, 2025
"Terror & Fear": Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery
The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month. The news comes less than two weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to decide the constitutionality of President Trump's executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.

"During the first Trump administration, they had 25 [denaturalization] cases per year, and … for the 15 years before the first Trump administration, they had fewer than 15 cases per year," says Mae Ngai, professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University. "So this is an incredible escalation."


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Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again (Democracy Now)

Washington Post PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92
His books on Reagan "have never been transcended," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.

New York Times PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Justice Dept. Will Appeal Dismissal of Comey and James Indictments
The Trump administration had vowed to fight a judge's decision to dismiss unrelated criminal charges against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York.

Drudge ReportDec 19, 2025
MAGA WAR ERUPTS AT TURNING POINT CONFERENCE...




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Kirk's widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages (Washington Post Politics)

Yahoo PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Justice Department faces deadline to release files on Epstein sex trafficking investigation


NYT Homeland Press ReleasesDec 19, 2025
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
Hundreds of people had rallied for the family in New York City after they were separated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in November.

Foreign PolicyDec 19, 2025
A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

Washington Post PoliticsDec 19, 2025
Drug companies line up to make deals with Trump after initial hesitation
More and more drug companies are making deals with the White House on drugs sold to the government and to Americans through a new website, TrumpRx.gov.

Drudge ReportDec 19, 2025
Facing Trump's wrath, Jack Smith requests public hearing in House GOP probe...




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Democracy NowDec 18, 2025
Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System
Former immigration judge Tania Nemer, who was fired in February, is now suing the Trump administration, alleging that she was discriminated against despite strong performance reviews. Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges who have been fired or reassigned since Trump took office. The system is notoriously backlogged, with more than 3 million cases pending. "I was pulled away in the middle of the hearing," she says.

Nemer filed a discrimination complaint with the Department of Justice, which officials dismissed, citing Article II of the Constitution on presidential powers. "I've been practicing employment law and representing federal employees for almost 30 years, and I have never seen a federal agency dismiss a complaint for this reason," says Nemer's attorney, James Eisenmann.


Democracy NowDec 17, 2025
A Path to WWIII? Greg Grandin on Venezuela, Trump's "Madman Doctrine" & More
President Trump has ordered what he called a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the United States escalates pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region and days after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. Since September, the U.S. military has carried out at least 25 airstrikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific near Venezuela, killing at least 95 people.

The administration's actions against Venezuela signal "the total renunciation of liberal internationalism" and further abandonment of "a world governed by common laws," says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Yale University professor Greg Grandin. This comes as Latin America is on a "knife's edge between the left and the right," with the Trump administration eager to boost its authoritarian allies across the region, says Grandin.


Washington Post PoliticsDec 17, 2025
Michael Flynn, once probed over foreign payments, lobbied for Bosnian Serbs
Flynn is the second person pardoned by President Trump to work on behalf of the Bosnian Serb republic.

Democracy NowDec 09, 2025
Save Mumia's Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal was arrested in 1981 for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, for which he has always maintained his innocence. One of the best-known political prisoners in the world, Abu-Jamal was an award-winning journalist and co-founder of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party before his incarceration, and has continued to write and speak from prison. Human rights groups say he was denied a fair trial, with evidence unearthed in 2019 showing judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct. Abu-Jamal is now 71 years old, and advocates say he is being denied proper medical care in prison, permanently risking his eyesight.

"We're marching today to demand freedom for Mumia and all political prisoners," says activist Larry Hamm.

"We ration healthcare in this country, and in particular for prisoners," says Noelle Hanrahan, part of Abu-Jamal's legal team, who is demanding "that Mumia get specialist care … and that he is given the treatment that he deserves."


Democracy NowDec 08, 2025
"I Was Pepper-Sprayed": Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More
Democracy Now! speaks with Democratic Congressmember Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who says she was attacked by masked ICE agents Friday as she tried to find out more information about a raid taking place at a restaurant in her district in Tucson. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed as she was attempting to "deescalate the situation" and conduct oversight. Grijalva also responds to divisions in the Republican Party, including over the Epstein files, calls to replace House Speaker Mike Johnson, and how massive premium increases could soon kick in for millions of Americans as Johnson races to finalize a Republican healthcare plan.

Democracy NowNov 28, 2025
The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York's first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January 1, we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what's been described as "one of the great political upsets in modern American history."

Fox PoliticsJul 23, 2022
Trump drops major hints on possible 2024 presidential run, in culture war-tinged TPUSA speech
Former President Donald Trump dropped major hints about a potential 2024 presidential run during a speech to the a Turning Point USA conference Saturday.

Fox PoliticsJul 22, 2022
Climate change 'deadline' crosses ominous threshold as activists warn world is nearly out of time
Activists warned Friday that the world is rapidly running out of time to substantially change energy usage and curb global warming as the "deadline" for action fell.

Department of Homeland Security NewsSep 28, 2021
Secretary Mayorkas Announces Designation of Croatia as a New Participant in the Visa Waiver Program
WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in coordination with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Croatia as a new participant in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).  Starting no later than December 1, 2021, the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) will be updated to allow citizens and nationals of Croatia to apply to travel to the United States for tourism or business for up to 90 days without obtaining a U.S. visa.  Croatia's designation as a participant in the VWP is an important step toward further strengthening  long-standing economic and security cooperation between the United States and Croatia.    

"Today's designation of Croatia as a new participant in the Visa Waiver Program is an important recognition of our countries' shared economic and security interests," said Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas.  "I congratulate Croatia for becoming the 40th member of the VWP after having met strict requirements, and I look forward to our continued close cooperation on key priorities."   

The VWP is a comprehensive security partnership between the United States and designated countries that facilitates international travel to the United States for business or tourism without a visa for up to 90 days, while protecting national security.  To participate in the VWP, a country must meet requirements related to counterterrorism, law enforcement, immigration enforcement, document security, and border management on an ongoing basis.  These requirements include having a rate of nonimmigrant visa refusals below three percent, issuing secure travel documents, and working closely with U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism authorities.   

ESTA authorizations are generally valid for two years.  Travelers with valid B1/B2 visas should continue to use their visa for travel to the United States.  For more information on ESTA applications, please visit the


Reuters PoliticsJun 18, 2020
Democrats consider next steps after Bolton revelations on Trump
Democratic lawmakers on Thursday said they were considering next steps, including a subpoena, on how to respond to allegations by former top White House aide John Bolton that President Donald Trump sought foreign help to get re-elected.
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